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WHISKED: Jenna says: It's November once again, and you know
what that means - time to pre-order your Thanksgiving pies. You
can also pick up at the market the weekend before Thanksgiving. To see
our full Thanksgiving menu and to pre-order your pies, fill out our
online form. The pre-order deadline for picking up at a market is
Wednesday, Nov. 18.
Here are this week's Best of DC pies: Chocolate Pecan Pie, Pear
Cinnamon Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Pumpkin Chocolate Pie, Salted Caramel Apple
Pie, Classic Apple Pie, Bourbon Pecan Pie, Sea Salt Chocolate Chess
Pie, the new Cranberry Lemon Pie. Savories are Mushroom, Roasted Garlic
and Goat Cheese and Bacon, Cheddar Onion Quiches.
The cookie packs make a great dinner gift: Salty Oat, Chocolate Chip,
Nutella, Pretzel Cowboy, Molasses, Snickerdoodle, Mexican Chocolate and
mini Pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. The pumpkin cranberry bread is
excellent.
REID ORCHARDS: Asian pears, plums, Concord
grapes. Did you say apples? Honeycrisp, Gala, Ginger Gold,
McIntosh, Fuji, Macoun, Roxbury Russet, Cox Orange Pippin, Bramley,
Pinova and Cortland apples plus some antique varieties that Conor
always puts on the truck. Ciderhouse rules: UV apple, apple,
honeycrisp, apple grape, apple cherry and pear cider. A lot of
people think Reid makes the best cider in the region. If you want
to buy a lot of apples to make apple sauce or apple butter or apple
pies or to split with several families, ask Conor about bushel prices.
MOUNTAIN VIEW ORGANICS: Will have some nice puntarelle
(Rome's favorite salads) and escarole, winter radishes,Napa cabbage,
broccoli, last of the carrots plus some nice mixed bags of red, white
and blue potatoes. Garlic, Padron and Shishito peppers.hakurei salad
and and greens, baby beets, kales, Swiss Chard, baby boy choy,.
Colorful sweet peppers including the pale yellow Hungarians and hot
peppers. Watermelon radishes and French radishes. Fall squash. Young
spinach. Young Fennel.
TIP: Use their flat wide young collards instead of grape vine leaves to
wrap dolmades or other stuffed delights. (Soften them in a big pot of
boiling water for a few minutes first).
TRUCK PATCH: Broccoli. Green beans. Fall squash. Bryan loves
to grow those heirloom tomatoes and he will still have some at the
stand this week. : Stripped German, Aunt Ruby, Cherokee Purple, Black
Krim, Roma, Big Reds, Stripped Zebra, Great White, Valencia. There may be
tomato seconds for canning. Lettuces, kale, Swiss chard, Green Beans,
Beets, Eggplants. Lots of Fall squash .
TRUCK PATCH: Salad Central for mixed greens!
Broccoli, Cauliflower, Romanesco, Yukon gold potatoes, Russet potatoes,
Sweet potatoes, Onions, Brussels Sprouts, Kale, Collards, Swiss Chard,
Arugula, Spinach, and Mesclun.
Stacia says: "Local Honey - Wildflower, bees pollinated from our
beautiful flowers."
TRUCK PATCH MEATS: Pastured Pork! - Bacon, Bone in and Boneless Pork
butt, tenderloins, bone in and boneless pork chops, spare ribs,
breakfast and savory sausages, and whole chicken and chicken parts.
Yes, you should reserve your
Thanksgiving Turkey, 10-30 pounders. They are called Broad Breasted
Whites and they have been running around on pasture and eating up seeds
and garden ends and bugs for weeks so they will be very tasty. You can
see them on their fb pageas well as ours.
CUCINA AL VOLO PASTAS, SAUCES
AND SOUP: Handmade ravioli, vegetable tinted freshly dried
pastas in jewel like colors, lasagnes, pesto, soup and sauces from our
2 local Florentine chefs, Mateo and Daniele. This is fast food as
it should be. The pastas cook in less than 5 minutes. The
pesto is the concentratred Italian version-- just a teaspoon needed per
serving.
NUMBER 1 Sons: Have you tasted the 3 fabulous (not
funky) Dang Good Kombuchas? Spicy Ginger, Lavender Mint, 4 Teas.
District Dills and Super Sours Many krauts, slaws, kimchi, beets,
regular beets, dilly beans, chili bear hot sauce, and more.
Chili Bears UPDATE
FROM CAITLIN:
The popular Chiracha sauce is back! It's now in a big chili bear. We've
been getting lots of peppers from The Farm at Sunnyside + a few other
farms. Hot Chocolate + Lemon Drop are the current VERY HOT chili bears.
We've now done four batches of Local #1 -- the mix of peppers changes
each time we make it!
GARNER: Heirloom tomatoes, Field
tomatoes, white turnips, radishes, arugula, green beans,yellow was and
flat Romas. Red, green, orange bell peppers. Candy onions. Hot peppers:
Jalapeño, Anaheim, Poblano, Serrano, Cayenne, Habañero. White and red
potatoes and sweet potatoes. Butternut, green acorn, kabocha and
spaghetti squash. Pumpkins. Red and green kale. Asian greens. Small
yellow summer squash, october beans.
KESWICK: What I like about the Keswick stand is that they
have such a huge range of cheeses that I can always find something new
every week. When Dean was thinking about an alternative to parmesan for
his bean soup last week, he unexpectedly chose the Vermeer, a Dutch
style cheese. A few weeks ago it was the excellent Blue Suede
Moo,Tallegio and the Croton (for those of us who love French Epoisse -a
stinky, creamy, runny winner) that caught my eye and found their way to
my fridge. Cheddar, Calverley, Wallaby, Vachino Bianca, Bovre, Tomme
Sweet Tomme , Carrock. Some are Jersey cow milk, some are a mix
of Jersey and goat milk Sample them all. That Blue Suede
Moo makes a great dip. I have been using it with string beans
too.
And if you love yogurt, be sure to check
this. Mark's Pimento Cheese is a Southern
staple and makes a great Kimcheese burger.. Chileheads, alert. I get
your Dragon's Breath. Cream cheese? No, it's quark, what cream cheese
aspires to be. We had a family of Danish visitors at
market 2 weeks ago and they were very excited to see the quark -- and
Zac was very amused by their Danish pronunciation of it.
PANORAMA: Baguettes and croissants, breakfast pastries and lots
of breads. Breton specialties like Kouign Amann and the new
Crois-Nut.French breakfast pastries like palmiers, almond croissants
plus the plain and chocolate crosisants, baguettes, the olive oil buns
that grace the 25 dollar hamburgers at Central and the Rustiques they
serve you at Citronelle. Sandwich breads, too. If they are out of a
bread you crave, ask them to save one for you for next week. Late
risers: they have lots of whole wheat, multigrain and sourdough boules
and loaves that sell out early.
Please spread the word about
the Bonus Program for EBT/SNAP, WIC and Senior FMNP.
Robin and the Teds and Erin
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